Grace Place Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823406224
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2020
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Redding, CA, USA
Phone
5307108650
Rating
61
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$318,387
Expenses
$233,124
Assets
$116,050
Liabilities
$26,397

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Jonathan Carter (Executive Administrator): $17,904 total reported compensation
  • Kathy Newton (Lead Counselor/Senior Leader): $5,500 total reported compensation
  • Jesse Wahl (Accountant): $5,209 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Grace Place Ministries exists to make disciples who walk in both the Spirit and the fullness of their identity, following Christ's commission.

What it reported doing in 2020

Discipleship Ministry - We allow our leadership volunteers/students to raise money via supporters to be able to invest more time into the ministry. This allows them to pour into and disciple people that want to live in our houses and be a part of our community. Also allows time to build our ministry via new networking, fundraising, and marketing techniques, pour into our donors, and grow in their leadership and responsibility skills. It gives them more time to be around the founder of the ministry to disciple and mentor them. The money raised pays for there living expenses during the year. This discipleship ministry also includes funds from our founder and director that he pours into our volunteer team & students with meals, gifts, and travel opportunities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Member-benefit provider. The nonprofit used 96% of its reported program spending for member benefits.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 52
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 50
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 69.7%; rating input score 70
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 26.8%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 40.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 51% of revenue deployed · 69.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $162K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $18K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.